Easy, Homemade Blueberry Pie Recipe

Easy blueberry pie with blueberries, warm spices, lemon and an easy lattice crust. Blueberries shine in this pie! Jump to the full Blueberry Pie Recipe or watch our quick video showing you how we make it.

We add a touch of spice from allspice and cinnamon and zing from lemon zest. Not so much that they take away from the blueberries, but just enough to lift their flavor. If you’re using fresh blueberries buy (or pick) berries that are plump, sweet and juicy. You can use frozen blueberries in this recipe as well — just thaw and drain them before using.

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Easy Homemade Blueberry Pie – Toss, Fill and Bake

For the filling, blueberries are tossed with a mixture of sugar, cornstarch, allspice, cinnamon, salt and a little lemon zest. Add that to a pie shell then decide how you want to top it.

Another option is to simply place a sheet of dough over the filling then add slits to the top. Or, add a crumble topping.

Before baking, we like to brush the crust with a rich egg wash made from egg yolk and cream. Then we bake until bubbling and golden brown. The most difficult part to making any fruit pie is waiting for it to cool — you really need to wait 2 to 3 hours before cutting. Otherwise, the filling will spill out and make the crust soggy.

Serve the pie with ice cream, whipped cream or do what we do and enjoy it plain.

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Take a look at our Easy Cherry Pie — we can’t decide which we prefer, blueberry or cherry pie.

You might also enjoy our Strawberry Pie — it’s a little quicker to make and very tasty.

Easy, Homemade Blueberry Pie Recipe

PREP 40mins

COOK 1hr 5mins

TOTAL 1hr 45mins

Blueberries shine in this pie. The pie is lightly sweetened with a touch of spice from allspice and cinnamon. To top the pie, we like to add a lattice crust. It is simpler than it may seem, we’ve provided instructions below for you. If you prefer, you can also top the pie with a full sheet of pastry, just be sure to cut a few slits to allow steam to escape before baking.

The pie is finished baking when you see the juices in the filling bubbling eagerly. If you remove the pie before the filling bubbles, the filling will be too thin and will run out of the pie onto your plate once sliced. Also, we like to use our Flaky Pie Crust recipe for this. Use ours, your favorite recipe or store-bought pie crust.

Directions

Prepare Bottom Crust

Roll out half of the pie dough to fit an 8- or 9-inch pie dish. To prevent the dough from sticking and to ensure uniform thickness, roll from the center of the dough outwards and keep lifting up and turning the dough a quarter turn as you roll. Check for the correct size by inverting the pie dish over the dough. The dough should be about 2 inches larger than the dish.

Being careful not to stretch the dough, fit into pie dish then trim dough to within 3/4-inch of the edge of the dish. Refrigerate while you make the pie filling.

Roll out second half of dough to a similar size as before. Cut into 3/4-inch strips. Lay five strips over filled pie, parallel and equally spaced from one another. Carefully fold back the second and fourth strips then lay another strip of dough perpendicular to them. Unfold second and fourth strips over new strip.

Fold back the first, third and fifth strips then lay another strip of dough perpendicular to them. Unfold the first, third and fifth strips over the new strip. Repeat until pie has been covered with a lattice crust. (Watch our video for how to make a lattice crust).

Trim dough strips to 3/4-inch of the edge of dish. Fold edges of strips and bottom dough underneath itself, creating a thicker border that rests on the lip of the dish. Crimp edges. Dot butter over the open areas of the lattice.

Make egg wash by whisking egg yolk and cream together then brush over pie dough. Sprinkle tablespoon of coarse sugar over crust. Refrigerate pie 20 minutes or freeze for 5 minutes before baking.

To Finish

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Position an oven rack in the lower third of the oven then place a baking sheet on rack. (The baking sheet will catch any drips from the pie while baking).

Bake chilled pie on hot baking sheet for 20 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees F then continue to bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden and juices in the filling are bubbling eagerly. (If, while baking, the crust begins to brown too much, cover with aluminum foil and continue to bake until done).

Cool 2 to 3 hours before cutting to allow filling to set.

Adam and Joanne's Tips

Crimping Edges: To crimp edges of pie, press the pointer finger of one hand against the edge of the dough from the inside of the dish while gently pressing with two knuckles of the other hand from the outside. To see us do it, watch our Flaky Pie Crust Video.

Frozen Blueberries: If you are unable to find fresh blueberries, you can substitute 6 cups frozen blueberries that have been thawed and drained.

Nutrition facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates. We have used the USDA Supertracker recipe calculator to calculate approximate values.

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Thank you so much, Adam and Joanne! First of all, we hardly ever review. For whatever reason, I’ve been striking out as far as blueberry pies here lately. We had so many blueberries this past summer (an enviable “problem”) that we had to freeze them for the winter. Most of the recipes out there unfortunately have failed me insofar as the frozen berries. I have to admit that after having been burned more than once, I was extremely skeptical. But the pie we just made this evening with your recipe – with frozen berries that we let defrosted for a few hours, although not entirely – was just perfect, perfect, PERFECTION! My husband requested seconds and when I told him, “I’m definitely leave a positive review,” he added, “I never eat two pieces!” 🙂 Thanks SO much, you two and a half! Our son also enjoyed the video and helped with the lattice crust on our magnificent pie. Even he is not much of a pie aficionado but asked for extras. Keep up the great work!

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